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Orlando isn't locked in to the 4/5 seed, they could get a 3/6 regional, a 2/7 regional, etc. The way the committee brackets the field is they start with the 1 seeds and put them as close to their campus as possible, then the 2 seeds, 3 seeds, and the 4 seeds get protected last. The better the...

More than anything, the reason the 4 seed is more appealing to me than the 5 seed is that getting the 4 seed makes it much more likely that the 1st/2nd round games Miami gets drawn into are played in Orlando. The top 4 seeds get protection from being placed into a situation where there is a...

FAMU, Louisville, and the two St. Francis schools are really dragging the SOS down. Out of 363 schools, St. Francis (PA) is 328, Louisville is 337, St. Francis (NY) is 349, and FAMU is 360. You can get away with 1 or 2 sub-300 teams, but 4 of them will be an absolute anchor, especially only...

Butler is mediocre at best. They are better than Georgetown and DePaul, but I'd take every other Big East team over them, and I'm not going to hang my hat on beating a 7-13 Big East team for a tourney bid at the end of the day. Dayton can at least get there, but they have shown nothing against...

The only one of these teams that I would give better than a 50/50 chance to make the NCAA Tournament is Rutgers. - NC State has beaten nobody of quality (best win is against a super disappointing Dayton. I wouldn't be surprised if Furman is looked at as the best non-conference win to date by...